US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on May 26 for "Method of preventing vehicle controller from being hacked and system thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,089, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of preventing vehicle controller from being hacked and system thereof" was invented by Ho Jin Jung (Bucheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing a vehicle controller from being hacked includes allowing the vehicle controller to transition from a lock state to an unlock state as a security access with a vehicle diagnostic device is completed, transmitting, by the vehicle controller, a session holding time to the vehicle diagnostic device in the unlock state, monitoring, by the vehic...